Asian Hustle Network

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 139 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Gaurav Bhattacharya on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Gaurav Bhattacharya is CEO and co-founder of involve.ai, a Customer Intelligence platform to empower companies with AI-based Customer Intelligence that drives Transformational Growth.

He actively participates in the Los Angeles tech innovation ecosystem through panel discussions and mentoring. Bhattacharya started his career by founding a medical software business while still in high school. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum and an accomplished technology leader speaking at major conferences and authoring several publications in this space.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 138 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Gary Hwang on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Gary Hwang is one of the co-founders of Gyuzo Japanese BBQ, a restaurant that specializes in A5 Wagyu. Launched in the middle of Covid 2020 shut down multiple times due to lockdown, survived, and is now thriving as one of the busiest restaurants in Rockville, Maryland.

Gary has a broad range of life experiences from immigrating to the US, dropping out of high school, having served 6 years in the Army with 1 deployment to Afghanistan, and having worked in public accounting.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 130 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Kevin Lee on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Kevin Lee is a Co-Founder of immi, a better-for-you Asian American food brand that creates the world's first low-carb, high-protein, and 100% plant-based instant ramen. Previously, he led food & beverage investing as a Principal VC at Pear Ventures and is an angel investor in 30+ companies. Prior to investing, he built the world’s largest online product manager community and worked as a Product Manager at AltSchool and Kabam. He grew up in a food family helping his grandparents harvest rose apples from their produce farms in Taiwan.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 136 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Tiffany Moon on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Award-winning anesthesiologist, frontline worker, supermom to 6-year-old twins, and philanthropist, Dr. Tiffany Moon, took over televisions this year as the first medical doctor and first-generation Chinese-American cast member in franchise history to be a part of “The Real Housewives of Dallas.” Now moving into the content-creating space, Dr. Moon has most recently launched her very own YouTube channel, “Paging Dr. Moon” with various lifestyle, medical, comedic, and other videos being released soon.

With a love for all things pop culture, fashion, food, medical practice, and more, Dr. Tiffany Moon’s new YouTube channel “Paging Dr. Moon” will offer fans and new viewers new content each week that will cover a wide variety of topics.

Dr. Moon is passionate about medical student and resident education, and in 2014 she won the Dennis F. Landers, M.D., Ph.D. Faculty of the Year Teaching Award. She serves on multiple committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists and is an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient (ISPCOP). In 2019, she was honored by D Magazine as one of Dallas' Best Doctors. She has also received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Society for Education in Anesthesia and the American Society of Anesthesiologists and was inducted into the prestigious Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA). Dr. Moon is the principal investigator on multiple clinical research grants and has received numerous research awards. She has published more than two dozen original manuscripts, reviews, and book chapters and speaks internationally on topics related to her research.

Dr. Moon resides in Dallas with her husband Daniel Moon, vice president and general counsel for jewelry and accessory brand Sam Moon. Together, they’re parents to 6-year-old twin girls, Chloe and Madison, and Tiffany is stepmom to 16-year-old twins Nathan and Nicole. When she’s not in front of the camera or saving lives, Dr. Moon also serves on the board of directors of The Family Place, an organization that empowers victims of family violence by providing safe housing, counseling, and skills that create independence while building community.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 135 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Mai Kim Le on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Mai Kim Le is a Vietnamese American who plunged into a new culture at the age of three after starting her journey traveling by boat from war-torn Vietnam to the U.S. She grew up in Seattle, WA, in the 80’s at the height of the grunge culture and moved to sunny Anaheim, CA, before Phước Lộc Thọ was erected in Westminster. Mai’s family finally settled in Lawrence, MA, which became her beloved childhood hometown. She graduated from Bowdoin College and Princeton University. She spent most of her 20’s saving the world in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She then gave all of that up for love and moved to Boston to be with her college best friend.

Mai is the author of a new memoir, Worlds Apart: My Personal Life Journey through Transcultural Poverty, Privilege, and Passion. This up-close-and-personal exposé on everything Mai has felt under the skin plays a powerful role in her mission to amplify the Asian American voice and help people of all backgrounds come together in the face of their differences. Worlds Apart is available on Amazon and in select bookstores. A serial entrepreneur, Mai is currently the CEO and co-founder of Haystack Dx, a medical device start-up. She resides in Boston with her husband, three kids and two furry friends.

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Welcome back to Season 2 and a special episode of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Domee Shi on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

DOMEE SHI (Directed by/Story by/Screenplay by) began as a story intern at Pixar Animation Studios in June 2011, and was soon hired as a story artist on the Academy Award®-winning feature film “Inside Out.” Since then, she has worked on the feature films “The Good Dinosaur,” “Incredibles 2” and the Academy Award®-winning “Toy Story 4.” In 2015 she began pitching ideas for short films, and soon was greenlit to write and direct “Bao” which won the Academy Award® for best animated short film. In her role as a creative VP, Shi is involved in key creative decision-making at the studio and consults on films in both development and production.

Shi graduated from the animation program at Sheridan College where she was fueled by her love of anime/manga, Disney, and Asian cinema influences that can be seen in her work to this day.

Shi was born in Chongqing, China, and resided in Toronto, Canada most of her life. She currently lives in Oakland, Calif., and notes that her love of animation is only rivaled by her love of cats.

TURNING RED is an endearing coming-of-age story that follows Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda!

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 134 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Linda Chiou on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Linda was born in Waterloo, Ontario, and graduated from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2013. Over the past 8 years, she has grown to become a social media influencer with over 500k audience on Instagram and a noteworthy leader in the fashion and beauty e-commerce space. She shares her personal journey of quitting her 9-5 corporate job in order to pursue her own business. She is a dedicated entrepreneur with a passion for helping women start their own businesses in order to be financially independent and live life to the fullest. In the process, she discovered that the uncertainty of making a leap in a career change can be daunting, but ultimately the reward, freedom, and happiness, in the end, is priceless. She currently resides in upstate New York. When she isn’t working, you can find her spending time with family and friends, boating, and barbequing in Lake George with her husband and 2 long hair chihuahuas.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 133 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Joe Jitsukawa on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Joe Jitsukawa is a serial entrepreneur, comedian, investor, and public speaker. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and grew up surrounded by the growing gang culture in LA.

Tired of the regular 9-5 job, Joe quit and co-founded JustKiddingFilms, a comedy YouTube channel in 2007. Through this channel, Joe and his team of friends shoot comedic sketches through which they teach good things “in a bad way.” JustKiddingNews has almost two million subscribers.

Besides YouTube, Joe has also found success in different business ventures, such as apparel, consulting, e-commerce, and investing. He likes advising and investing in several businesses, including a growing matcha franchise in LA called Junbi.

Passionate about helping others, Joe created a free online education platform called Joemalian Academy that now provides over 20 thousand students with basic life skills and self-improvement education.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 132 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Drex Lee on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

Drex Lee is a serial entrepreneur. He is well known for his epic one-shot videos on Instagram and TikTok where he has amassed over 4.5 million followers in less than one year. From food stamps to gang violence, shootouts, trailer homes, massive debt, to penthouse, to 5 businesses, to community leader, to losing everything in the pandemic, and coming back up again.

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Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 131 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Calista Wu on this week's show.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned!

CaliStar, also known as Calista Wu, is an American recording artist, activist, and well-respected attorney whose repertoire defies expectations and inspires others to pursue the possibility.  As the founder of a multi-platform entertainment company, Cali Star Entertainment, LLC, she is breaking barriers and redefining empowerment through music, art, fashion, and community.  The gifted singer/songwriter has crafted a highly anticipated project, featuring songs produced by Jae Chong (Solid, Aziatix, Coco Lee, Elva) and Enik Lin (FYKE, Royal Pirates, Amber Liu, James Lee), and mastered by Chris Gehringer (Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Rihanna, Lady Gaga).  Her company brand is represented by the alicorn logo, a mythical creature that is both unicorn and pegasus—as such, she is poised to take the world by a beautiful storm with her alluring vocals, captivating compositions, and stunning visuals.  The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, LA-based CaliStar arrives to break barriers for Asian American artists and champion various causes close to her heart, such as anti-bullying and mental health awareness.  Her latest single “Can’t Sleep” and its accompanying imaginary music video, out December 17th, show CaliStar confronting her past traumas during a restless night watching the clock.  CaliStar designed her artist logo to be a star comprised of both a diamond and a tea because her motto is to turn pain into beauty, something she does, dare we say beautifully, on “Can’t Sleep.”

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